My Direct to Disk Solution at DVinfo.net

Jeff Toogood · May 14th, 2004, 06:54 PM

I needed to record a seminar that I knew was going to be in 3 hour segments were I wasn't going to be able to change tapes. Especially with my bottom loading TRV38, this would have been a real pain in the ass.

So I hooked up my old Celeron 500 laptop running Windows XP and a couple of external firewire drives and the setup worked flawlessly.

Here are a few pics of the setup

Rob Lohman · May 15th, 2004, 08:09 AM

That's a good solution if you don't need to move (much) indeed.
I did a similar thing on some setups on my Lady X shoot.

Glenn Gipson · May 23rd, 2004, 07:44 AM

So can any laptop with Firewire and an NLE capture live footage?

Rob Lohman · May 23rd, 2004, 07:53 AM

As long as your camera is outputting the video over firewire, yes.

Glenn Gipson · May 23rd, 2004, 07:57 AM

Thanks Rob, but is there a certain Laptop Hard Drive RPM minimum for doing such a thing? Would the Laptop HD have to be at least 7200 rpm?

Rob Lohman · May 23rd, 2004, 08:11 AM

I've succesfully done it on a 5400 RPM drive. It depends on how
fragmented that drive is. I can imagine it might work @ 5400 RPM
at one drive and not another. Depends on a lot of things. The
faster the rotational speed, the better. It also needs to have at
least 4 MB/s sustained transfer rate and run in DMA mode.

The best way is just simply to test if you have a laptop available.
I would use a seperate partition with NOTHING else on it to write
the files to. Or you can always hook up an external drive if you
have the power available.

Christopher C. Murphy · May 23rd, 2004, 10:30 AM

I wonder if the JVC HD10U can do this? Anyone tried this yet?

Murph

Ted Roberts · May 24th, 2004, 11:00 AM

Hello All,

I just shot a 5hr dance recital using two cameras. One recorded to my Inspiron 8000 notebook with a Lacie 200GB 1394 drive attached. The other camera recorded to a small desktop system also with a Lacie 200GB drive attached. Both systems recorded flawlessly. Since I used Edition as the capture program on both systems, all I had to do was attach the two Lacie drives to my main edit system and start editing immediately.
I am becoming a big fan of DV and hopefully HDV.

May 14th, 2004, 06:54 PM	#1
Jeff Toogood Major Player Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: St.Thomas, Ontario, CANADA Posts: 428	My Direct to Disk Solution I needed to record a seminar that I knew was going to be in 3 hour segments were I wasn't going to be able to change tapes. Especially with my bottom loading TRV38, this would have been a real pain in the ass. So I hooked up my old Celeron 500 laptop running Windows XP and a couple of external firewire drives and the setup worked flawlessly. Here are a few pics of the setup

May 15th, 2004, 08:09 AM	#2
Rob Lohman RED Code Chef Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Holland Posts: 12,514	That's a good solution if you don't need to move (much) indeed. I did a similar thing on some setups on my Lady X shoot. __________________ Rob Lohman, visuar@iname.com DV Info Wrangler & RED Code Chef Join the DV Challenge \| Lady X Search DVinfo.net for quick answers \| Buy from the best: DVinfo.net sponsors

May 23rd, 2004, 07:53 AM	#4
Rob Lohman RED Code Chef Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Holland Posts: 12,514	As long as your camera is outputting the video over firewire, yes. __________________ Rob Lohman, visuar@iname.com DV Info Wrangler & RED Code Chef Join the DV Challenge \| Lady X Search DVinfo.net for quick answers \| Buy from the best: DVinfo.net sponsors

May 23rd, 2004, 08:11 AM	#6
Rob Lohman RED Code Chef Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Holland Posts: 12,514	I've succesfully done it on a 5400 RPM drive. It depends on how fragmented that drive is. I can imagine it might work @ 5400 RPM at one drive and not another. Depends on a lot of things. The faster the rotational speed, the better. It also needs to have at least 4 MB/s sustained transfer rate and run in DMA mode. The best way is just simply to test if you have a laptop available. I would use a seperate partition with NOTHING else on it to write the files to. Or you can always hook up an external drive if you have the power available. __________________ Rob Lohman, visuar@iname.com DV Info Wrangler & RED Code Chef Join the DV Challenge \| Lady X Search DVinfo.net for quick answers \| Buy from the best: DVinfo.net sponsors

May 23rd, 2004, 10:30 AM	#7
Christopher C. Murphy Trustee Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 1,707	I wonder if the JVC HD10U can do this? Anyone tried this yet? Murph __________________ Christopher C. Murphy Director, Producer, Writer

May 23rd, 2004, 07:44 AM	#3
Glenn Gipson Major Player Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Plainfield, New Jersey Posts: 927	So can any laptop with Firewire and an NLE capture live footage?

May 23rd, 2004, 07:57 AM	#5
Glenn Gipson Major Player Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Plainfield, New Jersey Posts: 927	Thanks Rob, but is there a certain Laptop Hard Drive RPM minimum for doing such a thing? Would the Laptop HD have to be at least 7200 rpm?

May 24th, 2004, 11:00 AM	#8
Ted Roberts New Boot Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Greer, SC Posts: 10	Hello All, I just shot a 5hr dance recital using two cameras. One recorded to my Inspiron 8000 notebook with a Lacie 200GB 1394 drive attached. The other camera recorded to a small desktop system also with a Lacie 200GB drive attached. Both systems recorded flawlessly. Since I used Edition as the capture program on both systems, all I had to do was attach the two Lacie drives to my main edit system and start editing immediately. I am becoming a big fan of DV and hopefully HDV. __________________ Ted Roberts General Manager Micro Media, ProRay Systems